Zuckerberg has now dared Bill Gates, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Netflix CEO Reed Hastings to complete the challenge. "You guys have 24 hours to complete the challenge or you have to donate to the ALS foundation -- or both," Zuckerberg wrote on Facebook. "Finding ways to treat and cure ALS is an important cause."

As the Associated Press notes, the "months-old" ALS ice bucket challenge was recently kicked into high gear after Pete Frates, a former Boston College baseball player who was diagnosed with ALS in 2012, used the campaign to raise awareness about his condition. "I am nominating myself for the #icebucketchallenge cuz I can," Frates wrote on Facebook on July 31. Frates went on to challenge a bunch of people to do the same.

Since then, the ice bucket challenge has spread like wildfire on the Interwebs, and people everywhere -- including big names like Justin Timberlake, Matt Lauer and Twitter CEO Dick Costolo -- have been posting videos of themselves pouring ice water on their heads to raise awareness about ALS.

Barbara Newhouse, president and CEO of the ALS Association, said in a press release this week that she's been blown away by the response.

According to the ALS Association, there has been a whopping 1,000 percent spike in donations since the ice bucket challenge went viral. Donations to the organization's national office "surged during the 10-day period that ended Thursday to about $160,000, from $14,480 during the same period a year ago," the AP writes.

Since July 29, the ALS Association and its 38 chapters have received more than $4 million in donations, the organization said.

"While the monetary donations are absolutely incredible, the visibility that this disease is getting as a result of the challenge is truly invaluable," Newhouse said, per the release. "People who have never before heard of ALS are now engaged in the fight to find treatments and a cure for ALS."

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5 Guys Shot With 21,000 Paintballs For Charity

21,000 children die per day due to poverty. Matt Jones, managing director of Poverty Resolutions, got four friends together to demonstrate the enormity of that figure by enduring 21,000 paintball hits.
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